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Example sentences for "topknot"

Lexicographically close words:
topically; topick; topicks; topics; toping; topknots; topless; topman; topmast; topmasts
  1. Well, in my country we wear cranial ornament--topknot to wit.

  2. In Korea the topknot is a sine qua non; without it a Korean has no locus standi: he is a vulgar fraction--of no importance.

  3. It was due to Japanese influence that the Emperor of Korea, some years before, had decreed the abolition of the topknot and plunged the whole nation into despair.

  4. The cultivation of the topknot must give you a good deal of trouble.

  5. Our friend, with hundreds more, was sent over to settle in this country; some have cultivated the pigtail and become good Chinamen, others with equal success have devoted themselves to the topknot and are passable Koreans.

  6. That night every one was weak with crying and Topknot had cried herself sick.

  7. Illustration] Topknot wrote and heard in a day or so, saying Miss Guinea would be very glad to see her any time she would come.

  8. Then from the topknot of the chief I plucked some feathers.

  9. If he attempts to escape, crack his skull with your trusty tomahawk and lift his topknot with your gory scalping knife.

  10. I removed a portion of the gent’s topknot with my trusty scalping knife.

  11. There should be no topknot like that of the Irish Water Spaniel.

  12. This topknot should never be square cut or like a poodle's wig, but should grow down to a well defined point between the eyes.

  13. It should be surmounted with a regular topknot of curly hair, a most important and distinctive point.

  14. The hair on the muzzle and forehead below the topknot is quite short and smooth, as well as that on the stern.

  15. This topknot was at one time more prevalent than it is now.

  16. The topknot begins to appear sometimes when the dog is a few months old, and sometimes not till he is a year or so old.

  17. The man was bearded, wearing his thick mop of black hair in a round topknot secured by a hide loop.

  18. The fellow wore his hair fastened back with a band, unlike the topknot of the local tribesman.

  19. Ashe allowed him a moment or two of noisy grief and then limped over to grasp his topknot and pull up his head.

  20. Unable to hide his head in his arms, he brought his face down upon his knees so that only his shaggy topknot of hair was exposed.

  21. He was in a state of irritation because his idolized Topknot was in the other carriage.

  22. She knew the nutting party would be spoiled for him if his beloved little Topknot were left out.

  23. Never had his topknot hung so low over his forehead, never had his chin retreated so far into his cravat!

  24. In dem times de Woodpecker's head wuz right black, same ez er crow, an' he had er topknot on 'im like er rooster.

  25. Nixon, looking thoughtfully at a little topknot of flame that sprouted upon the blazing log nearest to him as he lay, with his brother Owls, prone upon his face and hands, gazing into the fire.

  26. Topknot has a spark of sense," said he, leading her along to the green-house.

  27. Look up in my eyes, little Topknot with the blue bonnet on.

  28. Then they exclaimed, in chorus,-- "Topknot shall have her skipt!

  29. It seems to me," spoke up John, "that Nature doesn't have to make every fellow seven stories high to leave his topknot vacant.

  30. Up yonder where your topknot is there's an aching void.

  31. But after an interval he was amused to see, rising over the sill within, a topknot of curls, and eyes filled with the alert, shy spirit of the deer whose flesh she had just eaten.

  32. When he saw the signal withdrawn and a lovely face with dark eyelashes and a topknot of curls looking down at him, he could do nothing but salute it, and Barbe shut her window.

  33. Therefore the father waxed thoughtful from his topknot to the end of his long-stem pipe.

  34. The high topknot growth of the cocoanut palm and the similar foliage of the tall-shanked papaya afford a spectacle unlike anything we see at home.

  35. He had to go against ancient prejudices, shatter ancient customs, and shock conservative people, as he did when he cut off his topknot and replaced his Japanese garb with modern European clothing.

  36. The first thing he did was to have his topknot cut off, discard the Japanese dress and two swords, clothe himself in ordinary European costume and have his picture taken.

  37. There a beautiful sight met his eyes; a white and yellow topknot mother, and eight or ten fluffy chickens scampering about her.

  38. A few hours later a proclamation was spread through the land informing all dutiful subjects that the Emperor's topknot was coming off, and urging them to imitate him.

  39. Officials were evidently instructed to make every one who came under their influence have his topknot off.

  40. How could he put on the plumed hat of a Generalissimo with a topknot in the way?

  41. One of 'em used to think yore topknot was red.

  42. When he came up for air, only a bit of his red topknot showed.

  43. Look at that topknot a wavin' in the wind!

  44. They resolved to punish him, and with the help of the buffalo carried out a plot by which the buzzard lost not his topknot alone, but nearly all the other feathers on his head.

  45. A Topknot darted out with one hand to her ear, opened the staff door, "Mr. Queet!

  46. You will sleep well to-night," said a Topknot, picking her ear with a knitting needle while the other Topknot smiled and nodded.

  47. I think she was a goldfinch, for she was very small, with black wing feathers, and a pretty black topknot parted in the middle.

  48. She was an exquisite yellow of different shades, with a topknot of yellow tipped with white, then black, with a catching little bang.

  49. It would appear as if the topknot were due to some morbid condition which is increased to an injurious degree when two birds in this state are paired.

  50. He is said to have been a sudra and he is represented in Tibetan pictures with a beard and topknot and holding an arrow[545] in his hand.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topknot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    braid; cap; coil; crest; crown; feather; hackle; head; heading; headpiece; knot; panache; pigtail; pinhead; pinion; plait; plume; queue; quill; tail; topknot; tuft; twist